Inactivity

I am sorry that I have been slacking the past couple days on this blog. Sunday was Father's Day, Monday I was packing for vacation, and right now I am just burnt out. I was in the middle of making a post about how majority America such as straight people, white people, cis people, and men are completely oblivious to a lot of minority issues, and I just found myself rolling my eyes. I was trying to be polite and level headed explaining how people say that LGBT people already have representation and whatnot and while I was in the process of explaining how wrong that is my tone changed. Mid sentence I found myself going from an informative explanation to suddenly talking about how ignorant and homophobic these remarks are and how fed up I am with hearing them. The level of awareness that I have developed for the people around me has become infuriating. I am stressed out about all these things around my house that I can't sit down and be logical when talking about these racist, sexist, homophobic people who I often address with these posts. Society has me exhausted and drained. So I need to get through my summer holiday with at least some degree of sanity. I will be back after that. Sometime early to mid July I will be back to posting regularly. Deeply sorry, I am simply busy and people are awful. 

Audience/Boundaries

Racist "jokes"

Homophobic "jokes"

Sexist "jokes"

Transphobic "jokes"

Ableist "jokes"

Rape "jokes"

I put jokes in quotations because these things are not funny, at all. When you talk these "jokes", you aren't being witty or clever, you are being rude and offensive. In this post, I have two types of people to address. The person who insists upon telling the "joke", and the people who are hearing it.

If you want to tell a controversial joke or make a potentially offensive remark in jest, you need to know your audience. Ask yourself, who's company are you in? Any of the following people, will probably not receive these jokes very well;

1. Someone you aren't very close to
2. People who have suffered prior harassment due to one of these things
3. [In regards to rape jokes] Most rape victims, especially recent victims
4. [In regards to ableist jokes] Those who have a mentally handicapped person close in their family
5. [In regards to ableist jokes] Those with recent diagnosis